The Irish Patients Association (IPA) have published the findings of a PatientView survey that has found that off-label prescribing is "an overlooked and unregulated area of medicine, mainly because doctors are able to practise it in a discretionary manner,"

Prescribing off-label is common but do you tell patients that you are prescribing them a medicine off-label? Should patients always be told? Is it important for them to know? Is it a duty of care to inform them? What if there are side-effects?